Fata

• As an Italian surname, from Fato, a short form of the name Bonfato (see Bonifacio) or from fata (“fairy, preying pantis”).
• As an Hungarian surname, from the old personal name Fáta.

Fata (plural Fatas)

1. A surname.

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Fata is the 25226^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 982 individuals. Fata is most common among White (80.65%) individuals.

• FTAA, afta, afta'

• Fada (Vulgar Latin, Medieval Latin)

From fātum (“destiny, lot, fate”) and fātus (“oracle, prophecy, fate”); derived from verb for (“I speak”) from Proto-Italic *fāōr, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰéh₂ti (“to speak”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈfaː.ta]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈfaː.t̪a]

Fāta f (genitive Fātae); first declension

1. (Greek mythology, mythology) alternative letter-case form of fāta (“Fate; Moira; Fairy, fay, deity of destiny; divine personification of fate”)

   Fatis Fata[bus] / Druinus M(arci) No[ni] / Arri Muciani c(onsulis) [opp. c(larissimi viri)] / actor praedioru[m] / Tublinat(ium), tegurium / a solo inpendio suo fe/cit et in tutela eius / sestertios n(ummos) CC conlustrio / fundi Vettiani dedit.

   To Fates and Fairies. Druinus, (slave) of [most illustrious] consul Marcus Nonius Arrius Mucianus, administrator of the Toblino estates, erected a shrine at his own expense and for its maintenance he offered two hundred sesterces on the occasion of the purification ceremony of the Vezzano estate

First-declension noun (dative/ablative plural in -ābus).

Fāta n pl (genitive Fātōrum); second declension

1. (Roman mythology) alternative letter-case form of fāta (“Fates; Parcae; Fairies, fey, deities of destiny; divine personifications of fate”)

   Fatis Fata[bus] / Druinus M(arci) No[ni] / Arri Muciani c(onsulis) [opp. c(larissimi viri)] / actor praedioru[m] / Tublinat(ium), tegurium / a solo inpendio suo fe/cit et in tutela eius / sestertios n(ummos) CC conlustrio / fundi Vettiani dedit.

   To Fates and Fairies. Druinus, (slave) of [most illustrious] consul Marcus Nonius Arrius Mucianus, administrator of the Toblino estates, erected a shrine at his own expense and for its maintenance he offered two hundred sesterces on the occasion of the purification ceremony of the Vezzano estate

Second-declension noun (neuter), plural only.

• Parca

• “fatum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “fatum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "fadus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• Fata in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 655.
• Fata in Georges, Karl Ernst, Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918) Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th edition, volume 1, Hahnsche Buchhandlung, column 2697

From fata, definite form of fată.

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Fata f

1. a village in Vedea, Argeș County, Romania